different between superhet vs superheterodyne

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Abbreviation of superheterodyne receiver.

superhet (plural superhets)

From super- +? heterodyne.

superheterodyne (not comparable)

(electronics) Pertaining to a technique used in radio and television receivers to tune to a particular frequency, or to receivers using such a technique. [from 20th c.]
- 1937, Fritz Leiber, ‘The Terror from the Depths’:
  Approaching Louisville, the Tin Hind was almost swallowed up in the Great Ohio Flood (which preoccupied the radio news for days; I hung over my superheterodyne set) and he was unable to visit a new correspondent of Lovecraft's there.

superheterodyne (plural superheterodynes)

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